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The authorities of the Nevada National Park Service received a report from a witness who found human bones in Callville Bay, in the Area Lake Mead Recreation Park, on Saturday afternoon.
The rangers went to the place where the bones were found and established a perimeter to recover the human remains.
The Clark County Medical Examiner was contacted to determine the cause of death.
“At this time, Homicide is not responding,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson said Saturday night. “The coroner’s office is driving”.
This is less than a week later that the remains of a man were found inside a barrel in the same lake.
Investigators believe the man was the victim of a murder in the mid-1980s 1970 or early 1980, according to the clothing and footwear the man encountered.
Also, is working to identify the deceased, and the coroner’s office of the Clark County says it will release the name, according to authorities.
“We believe this is a homicide resulting from a gunshot wound,” Lt. Ray Spencer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Homicide Section said in a news release.
The discovery of the remains generated a wave in social networks, where a user of Facebook wrote: “It’s literally an underwater graveyard. How many more bodies will there be?
With these new findings, Lake Mead police and officials are advising the public against looking for clues and removing items from the lake.
“Anything on the bottom (of the lake) if you find it, if you’re a diver, leave it there,” says David Alberg, Head of Resource Management and Compliance at Lake Mead. “If you’re worried, notify the park service, but don’t touch it.”
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